Psitech HFB 360

The Psitech HFB is a HIPPI frame buffer: a graphics display that
is connected to a supercomputer via a HIPPI interface. "Frame buffer"
implies that it is a very simple display, but that does not appear
to be true: the system consists of two large boards: one is half
occupied by ECL logic for interfacing with the HIPPI ports, and the
other half has a SPARC CPU, four PROMS, and assorted other logic.
The other board looks like a typical 90s high-end workstation
graphics board: 14 Xilinx FPGAs, lots of ram, and a DAC per RGB port.

Manufacturer

PsiTech

Model

HFB 360-08

Classification

Graphics Display

Introduced

1990

Implementation

ECL/CMOS

The HIPPI interface & SPARC logic board. The Motorola 10H??? series
chips on the left side of the board are ECL logic, and
the CY7C611A chip is Cypress's embedded version
of their first SPARC chip, the CY7C601.
The graphics board: